NZ Performance Car

Since 1996 New Zealand Performance Car has been the voice of the country’s modified import car scene. It was there to see the first import 10-second quarter mile run, there when the first official drift battle ensued, there when the first show trophies were handed out, and there to bring NZ its very first Super Lap time attack event. Each month the very best of NZ’s modified import car scene is served up. It’s New Zealand’s number 1 selling monthly motoring magazine and is New Zealand’s import performance authority and for good reason…it leaves the others for dust.

KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES

NZ Performance Car

HERO CONTRIBUTOR AARON MAI

CONTRIBUTORS

NEWS • GOT SOMETHING COOL COMING UP THAT’S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WORTH ATTENDING?

SUMMERNATS GOES KIWI

6 BANGER BURNOUT NATS

HPTO FEST

NZ SUPERLAP SERIES HIATUS

D1NZ HEADS TO GISBORNE

EVO FIX • THIRTEEN YEARS, COUNTLESS SETBACKS, AND ENDLESS LATE NIGHTS LATER, SHALVIN SHARMA’S EVO VIII MR IS NOW A PERFECTLY BALANCED TIME ATTACK EVO, BUILT TO HANDLE ANYTHING THAT THE STREET OR TRACK CAN THROW AT IT!

FROM THE STREETS • ASH AZAD BREWS UP A PAIR OF NINE-SECOND STREET-LEGAL MONSTERS, WITH MORE ON THE WAY!

Hardpark Growns into its own • NZPC HEADS TO WELLINGTON TO CHECKOUT THE CAPITAL’S MOST LAID-BACK PARK-UP AND THE COMMUNITY GROWING AROUND IT

PURE SUPRAMACY • FROM A SMASHED-UP DAILY TO THE WORLD STAGE AT SUMMERNATS, NAZ POSHKLIDI’S SUPRA IS MORE THAN AN 895KW SMOKE MACHINE. IT’S A PROMISE KEPT TO HIS BOY, A NOD TO HIS ROOTS, AND PROOF THAT KIWIS DO IT BETTER AT 8000RPM

Der Retro-Meister • IT’S UNDENIABLE THAT TUNER CAR CULTURE, AS WE KNOW IT, WAS INFLUENCED BY WHAT WAS HAPPENING ON RACE CIRCUITS AROUND THE GLOBE, ESPECIALLY DURING THE 1990S. YOU THINK MASSIVE WHEELS, BELLY-SCRAPING RIDE HEIGHTS, SKY-SCRAPING WINGS, AND FIVE-FIGURE RPM LIMITS ARE NEW? MERCEDES-BENZ AND AMG WENT TO WAR IN THE ’90S TO PROVE NONE OF IT IS JUST WINDOW DRESSING

RECEIVE IT AT YOUR DOORSTEP!

HIGH FIVE • CAN A DIEHARD JDM ENTHUSIAST FIND HAPPINESS IN AUDI’S LATEST FIVE-CYLINDER WEAPON? WE TAKE THE 2026 RS3 FOR A BLAST TO FIND OUT

IN THE CLUB CUSTOMS NO NAME • NZPC MEETS NO NAME CUSTOMS, UNAPOLOGETICALLY FROMTHE FAR, FAR NORTH OF NEW ZEALAND AND PROUD OF IT!

MONSTER BEETLE • LOOKS LIKE AN ORDINARY ’55 BEETLE; UNDER THE SKIN IT’S ANYTHING BUT. MID-ENGINED, AND WITH A SEQUENTIAL GEAR-BOX, FULL RACE SUSPENSION, AND BUILT BY THE WIBORGS AS A TRIBUTE TO THEIR GRANDAD, THIS MONSTER IS READY TO TEAR UP THE STREETS OF SWEDEN

FULL NOISE Fever Dream • I TOLD MYSELF I’D KEEP IT BRIEF. I PROMISED THIS WOULD BE SHORT, SHARP, AND SWEET. BUT THE REALITY IS, TOKYO AUTO SALON IS ANYTHING BUT. IT’S A GLISTENING, ADDICTIVE OASIS THAT DRAWS ANY AUTOMOTIVE TRAGIC WITH A PULSE INTO ITS WEB LIKE AN IMMERSIVE ALTERNATE DIMENSION

YOUR SHOTS IN PRINT

RESTORED WITH RESPECT • BLAKE HOLLAMBY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN BORN WHEN THIS CIVIC RULED THE STREETS, BUT THAT HASN’T STOPPED HIM FROM BRINGING IT BACK AND KEEPING THE LEGEND ALIVE

STREET Legal • 1996 NISSAN SILVIA (S14)

HARRYS EURO PROJECT R PART 4 • THE GOLF R PROJECT RETURNS! THIS TIME, THE ENGINE’S COMING OUT — BUT DON’T WORRY, IT’S NOT BLOWN. WE’VE GOT SOMETHING SPECIAL LINED UP: A BUILD WE’VE BEEN ITCHING TO DO FOR AGES, AND IT’S NOTHING LIKE YOUR AVERAGE STREET GOLF.

cruise mode • 1973 DATSUN 240Z

NZ’S QUICKEST EURO • HOW HARRY’S EURO ENGINEERED 1,100HP OF STREET-LEGAL “EURO” POWER

NEW ZEALAND’S QUICKEST STREET CARS

NEW ZEALAND–IMPORT DRAG RACING RECORDS

PRODUCT REVIEW